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  1. Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Get (or Share) News About Open Source Projects?

    Developers · Opensource · · posted by timothy · from the just-start-typing-random-ips dept. · 85 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "Now that freshmeat.net / freecode.com doesn't accept any updates, I wonder how the Slashdot crowd gets news about new projects, and even new versions of existing projects. For project managers, where could you announce new versions of your project, so that it can reach not just those who already know the project. Freshmeat / Freecode had all the tools to explore and discover projects, see screenshots (a mandatory feature for any software project, even with only a console interface or no interface at all) and go to the homepage of the project. I subscribed years ago to the RSS feed and sometimes found interesting projects this way. You could replace these tools by subscribing to newsletters or feeds from the projects you follow, but that doesn't cover the discovery part." And do any of the major development / hosting platforms for Free / Open Source projects (GitHub, Launchpad, or Slashdot sister-site SourceForge) have tools you find especially useful for skimming projects of interest?

  2. Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box?

    Ask · Unix · · posted by Soulskill · from the persistence-pays-off dept. · 288 comments
    Theovon writes "I just built a high-end quad-core Linux PC dedicated to number-crunching. Its job is to sit in the corner with no keyboard, mouse, or monitor and do nothing but compute (genetic algorithms, neural nets, and other research). My issue is that I would like to have something like persistent terminal sessions. I've considered using Xvnc in a completely headless configuration (some useful documentation here, here, here, and here). However, for most of my uses, this is overkill. Total waste of memory and compute time. However, if I decided to run FPGA synthesis software under WINE, this will become necessary. Unfortunately, I can't quite figure out how to get persistent X11 session where I'm automatically logged in (or can stay logged in), while maintaining enough security that I don't mind opening the VNC port on my firewall (with a changed port number, of course). I'm also going to check out Xpra, but I've only just heard about it and have no idea how to use it. For the short term, the main need is just terminals. I'd like to be able to connect and see how something is going. One option is to just run things with nohup and then login and 'tail -f' to watch the log file. I've also heard of screen, but I'm unfamiliar with it. Have other Slashdot users encountered this situation? What did you use? What's hard, what's easy, and what works well?"

  3. The Best VHS Capture System Using Free Software?

    Ask · Media · · posted by Cliff · from the preserve-your-shows-from-the-80s-and-90s dept. · 85 comments
    mrcgran asks: "I have been trying to find the best solution to transfer VHS tapes to a digital format using Free Software only. I would like to lose as little as possible in the conversion, sampling optimally, minimizing noise and being in control of every step of the process. Storage is not a problem. I'm expecting to use around 5GB+ for each hour of raw captured footage." If you were going to build a VHS capture system using Free Software, how would you do it?

    The software part seems promising: VLC and mencoder for conversion of raw footage, Cinelerra and many others for video editing.

    However, the hardware is being tricky. Most try to bloat the device adding functions like TV/compression/edition instead of focusing on the raw A/D conversion. Chipsets are hidden, and parameters like signal-to-noise, sampling rate etc are unavailable for comparison. Information is scattered and very difficult to find.

    Which chipsets/products should I look for, specially for use with Linux and BSD? Which ones allow oversampling of pixel resolution and number of frames (in order to average the values and reduce the noise)? Which setup should I use: S-Video/Composite, sampling rate/oversampling, suggestions on high-quality VHS players/heads/tape cleaning processes, etc? Has anyone tried to use scaling algorithms such as hq/scalenx to upscale video and sound resolution? Pitfalls?"

  4. Schematic/PCB Design for Linux?

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the for-future-hardware-manufacturers dept. · 132 comments
    VanessaDannenberg asks: "Occasionally, I have been known to design the occasional circuit board. I've been using Eagle, but with the board size limit of 3x4 inches in the free version, and a $400 price tag to exceed this limit, it is time to consider a Free Open Source Software alternative. Not being a Linux programmer myself, I have checked into and ruled out gEDA, KiCAD, Electric, XCircuit, and a host of others as being too incomplete to replace Eagle. My requirements are pretty basic: Draw a schematic, make a board out of it, edit and autoroute it, export to Gerber, and do it all natively within Linux. So, with this in mind, what suggestions do you folks have?"

  5. A Gimp In Photoshop's Clothing

    Tech · Gimp · · posted by Zonk · from the watch-the-teeth dept. · 531 comments
    comforteagle writes "Scott Moschella, from Attack of the Show!, set out to make The Gimp a little friendlier with a simple UI make-over, creating GimpShop. Despite an outcry from some developers, users have picked it up with passion. Howard Wen has interviewed Scott about why he did this. From the interview: 'I've always thought that GIMP was just as powerful as Photoshop. My way of proving it was to make GIMP work as close to Photoshop as I possibly could, given my limited programming experience.' As more Windows/Mac users discover powerful open source applications are they bound (slashdot disc.) to make more discoveries of this kind?" Update: 09/16 18:48 GMT by Z : Some users have pointed out this is basically an update to a previous discussion we've had. Link added for the sake of completeness.

  6. Political FOSS Fest July 11-13

    Politics · Politics · · posted by timothy · from the disinterest-is-not-the-same-as-apathy dept. · 5 comments
    Henri Poole writes "Pro-centralization team: BEWARE. The weekend following independence day, developers of F/OSS advocacy technologies are having the 2nd annual AdvocacyDev convergence in Oakland, CA. This should be a great weekend geek swarm for the politically active - including the tech teams of last years presidential campaigns. Over the last week, CiviCRM, & CivicEvents, & CivicMaps have all released, joining the CivicSpace and Advokit projects which are now in their second year."

  7. Open Solaris Derivative Available

    Tech · Unix · · posted by Zonk · from the zonkx-is-coming-next dept. · 209 comments
    tezbobobo writes "Well, Open Solaris has only been available a matter of days and already there are new projects available. SchilliX is an OpenSolaris-based live CD and distribution that is intended to help people discover OpenSolaris. When installed on a hard drive, it also allows developers to develop and compile code in a pure OpenSolaris environment. More details are available on the author's blog."

  8. OpenSSH 4.0 & Portable OpenSSH 4.0p1 Released

    It · Security · · posted by timothy · from the even-quieter-now dept. · 73 comments
    UnderScan writes "As seen on openssh-unix-announce: 'OpenSSH 4.0 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. We would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their continued support to the project, especially those who contributed source and bought T-shirts or posters.' See the changelog or the freshmeat.net changes summary for more details."

  9. Webcam Jigsaw Solver in 200 Lines of Python

    Tech · Software · · posted by timothy · from the not-lines-of-coke dept. · 199 comments
    leighklotz writes "Jeff Breidenbach and 200 lines of Python code have brought us the Glyphsaw Puzzle solver. Hold a puzzle piece up to a webcam, and the display sgiws exactly where in the puzzle the piece belongs. The solver uses the Python Imaging Library (PIL), Numerical Python, and the PARC DataGlyph Toolkit. By the way, you can make your own DataGlyphs."

  10. Are nVidia's SLI Cards Worth the Investment?

    Tech · Graphics · · posted by Cliff · from the plans-for-the-future dept. · 98 comments
    aendeuryu asks: "So there's a lot of buzz right now about nVidia's SLI architecture, which allows for two video cards to be placed in tandem PCI-express sockets on the same motherboard to share processing. Based on the relatively low price of a PCIx 6600GT, and the promise of it dipping further, it would seem like a good idea to invest in one and an appropriate motherboard, so that one can upgrade later, right? So, for anybody who's actually got the setup at home, have SLI cards shown themselves to be worth the investment?" "There are two problems with the current state of SLI:
    • It's hard to tell what software companies plan to take advantage of the SLI architecture when coding their games -- Doom3 and Several Benchmark software tests show a significant improvement over non-SLI setups, whereas some games like Far Cry actually show a performance hit over single video-card setups.

    • At the moment, the upgrade path actually requires two identical cards, so you'd have to choose your initial purchase extra carefully to make sure your model is still around when it's time to upgrade.
    What does the future hold for SLI, or, for that matter, the ATI counterpart, AMR?"

  11. Decentralize BitTorrent with Kenosis

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the do-you-peer-what-he-is-saying dept. · 327 comments
    UnderScan writes "Eric Ries, writer/programmer/CTO, authored an article 'Kenosis and the World Free Web' at Freshmeat [Owned by Slashdot's Parent OSTG]. Kenosis is described as a 'fully-distributed peer-to-peer RPC system built on top of XMLRPC.' He has combined his Kenosis with BitTorrent & removed the need for a centralized tracker. He states: 'To demonstrate Kenosis's suitability for these new applications, we have used it to improve upon another peer-to-peer filesharing application that Just Works: BitTorrent. BitTorrent does one thing incredibly well. Using a centralized "tracker," BitTorrent manages efficient distribution of data that is in high demand. We have extended BitTorrent, using Kenosis, to eliminate this dependence on a centralized tracker.' See also the Kenosis README for details on using Kenosis-enabled BitTorrent."

  12. FairUCE - the Smart Email Proxy

    It · Spam · · posted by michael · from the can't-hurt dept. · 333 comments
    Jestrzcap writes "This just posted on Freshmeat: FairUCE (which stands for 'Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial Email') is an SMTP proxy, running between multiple instances of Postfix, that verifies email by attempting to verify the sender through lookups (a user customized challenge/response). It claims to be able to 'stop a vast majority of spam' without the need for content filters, and 'virtually eliminates spoofed addresses, phishing, and even many viruses with a few cached DNS look-ups and a couple of if/then statements'."

  13. OS Independent Scotland Yard Released

    Games · Rts · · posted by Zonk · from the follow-the-crook-watson! dept. · 35 comments
    DarkLaser writes "When's the last time you played Scotland Yard? A version called London Law, written by Paul Pelzl, is now in beta. Its updated status can be seen on the freshmeat information page. It is written in Python, and intended to be able to run on Linux, BSD, Mac, and Windows."

  14. Ask Unix Co-Creator Rob Pike

    Interviews · Gui · · posted by Roblimo · from the in-the-beginning-was-the-command-line dept. · 479 comments
    Today we return to our Slashdot interview roots with a "Call for questions" for Rob "Commander" Pike, who has been involved in the development of many modern programming concepts, GUI advances, character sets, and operating systems. We'll email 10 - 12 of the highest-moderated questions to Rob and post his answers as soon as he gets them back to us.

  15. MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice

    Linux · Media · · posted by timothy · from the takedown-is-two-points dept. · 520 comments
    L1TH10N writes "News.com has a story on how the MPAA sent a takedown notice to Linux Australia for the movies 'Twisted' and "Grind.' What was actually hosted with Linux Australia is Twisted (being a Python framework) and Valgrind (being a tool for finding memory management problems in programs). An interesting question that the article raises is whether automatic takedown notices based on blind keyword searches constitutes spam."

  16. Gaim Releases Version 1.0.0

    Communications · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the unpossible dept. · 326 comments
    bfree writes "Congratulations to all in the gaim team as they release for download version 1.0.0 (changelog). For those who don't know what gaim is, you could read the full answer on their site but for the lazy: 'Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.' Gaim is also the 2nd most active project on Sourceforge and the 4th most popular on Freshmeat and seemingly all round #1 Free IM client!"

  17. Accurate ANSI Emulation in Mac OS X?

    Apple · Aputilities · · posted by pudge · from the all-terminals-suck dept. · 105 comments
    bedouin writes "I occasionally telnet to some BBSs that are very rich in ANSI graphics. While I can usually navigate fine through message areas and file boards, playing classic door games like Food Fight is almost unbearable. For about a year I've been searching for a Mac OS X terminal emulator that can accurately draw ANSI graphics just as they would appear on DOS systems with ansi.sys, but haven't found anything yet. Any suggestions? A native (and free or shareware) Mac OS X app would be prefered, but I'm willing to use an X11 or maybe even classic alternative as well. So far I've experimented with iTerm, GLterm, and aterm with unimpressive results."

  18. Where Did Affordable OCR Go?

    Ask · Software · · posted by Cliff · from the from-print-to-data dept. · 79 comments
    Goeland86 asks: "Has OCR (Optical Character Recognition) died down? Where have all the magical programs that translate your handwriting to office compatible files gone? Most of the windows programs nowadays are either expensive (ReadIris Pro 9 about $400) and not that many OSS projects for OCR have released a recent update (Kognition was last updated on July 17th 2003 according to Freshmeat). Has everyone already scanned/translated all of their paper files? Has OCR outlived its use, or is it just a fancy technology that hit a dead end in terms of the market? Have Slashdot readers used it? If so, are you still using it? If not, why?"

  19. Why Game Developers Should Finish What They Start

    Games · Programming · · posted by simoniker · from the get-on-with-it dept. · 80 comments
    Michael writes "Too often, hobbyists and open source programmers take on game projects that they can't hope to finish. Freshmeat is rife with games from developers who have bitten off more than they can chew. So I drafted an article which takes a look at the major roadblocks to successfully completing open source and hobbyist game projects."

  20. ReactOS Now Runs Abiword

    Developers · Gnu · · posted by timothy · from the when-vms-is-too-manstream dept. · 62 comments
    martijn-s writes "Reactos will now run, amongst other programs, AbiWord, IrfanView and its own Explorer clone. Screenshot here. I keep getting amazed by the quality of the code that is coming out of this project..."

  21. Playfair Relocates to India

    News · Music · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the taking-pea-out-of-the-pool dept. · 334 comments
    Lord Grey writes "Imagine my surprise to see playfair 0.5.0 appear on Freshmeat's project list. Remember, the project was pulled after Apple filed a Cease-and-Desist order just a few days ago. playfair's new web site talks a bit about the move, as well as sporting the latest release of the controversial utility."

  22. Playfair Relocates to India

    News · Music · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the taking-pea-out-of-the-pool dept. · 334 comments
    Lord Grey writes "Imagine my surprise to see playfair 0.5.0 appear on Freshmeat's project list. Remember, the project was pulled after Apple filed a Cease-and-Desist order just a few days ago. playfair's new web site talks a bit about the move, as well as sporting the latest release of the controversial utility."

  23. 3D, FPS File Manager

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the stress-release-through-file-management dept. · 226 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "Has your boss pissed you off and left his Samba share open to the world? Looking for something different in a file manager? Brutal File Manager may be for you. I found its Freshmeat page while I was looking for a new filemanager. I thought maybe the Slashdot crowd could appreciate it. So far only the delete function works." That's the only one you need anyway.

  24. Real Announces Helix Grant Winners

    News · Media · · posted by simoniker · from the twirly-and-creative dept. · 149 comments
    elaineg writes "We're happy to announce the 2003 Helix Community Grant Program winners for development of open source projects on Helix. They are to UC Santa Barbara for providing robust multicast support in Helix, the Justin Karneges and Ulrich Staudinger at the Jabber Foundation for Jabber/Helix integration, Robert Kaye at MusicBrainz for integrated metadata cleanup in the Helix DNA Client, Jesse Schell at Carnegie Mellon University for integrating the Panda3D game and simulation engine with Helix, and the Xiph.org Foundation for further R&D and support of Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora codecs, including Helix DNA platform integration. More details can be found in the press release. Also, in vaguely related news, we've released Milestone 2 of the Helix Player for Linux." Helix styles itself as "the first open multi-format platform for digital media creation, delivery and playback", and has been created by Real Networks.

  25. MySQL Gets Functions in Java

    Developers · Java · · posted by michael · from the we-love-you-krow dept. · 318 comments
    Java Coward writes "Eric Herman and MySQL's Brian "Krow" Aker have released code to allow the DBMS MySQL to run Java natively inside of the database. The code allows users to write functions inside of the database that can be then used in SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE statements. So when will someone do Ruby?"

  26. Linux File System Shootout

    Linux · Software · · posted by simoniker · from the bang-bang-it's dept. · 437 comments
    IpSo_ writes "Finally an extensive, human readable Linux file system benchmark has been unleashed upon us. Originally posted on the Linux Kernel mailing list, using two of the most popular benchmarking tools available, it compares all the major file systems, including their different mount options. The results are surprising."

  27. A Database of Patched Software?

    Ask · Os · · posted by Cliff · from the bringing-it-all-together dept. · 37 comments
    Midnight Warrior asks: "I am one system administrator for what is an organization of dozens of LANs. Together, we all must keep our machines patched. Now we can all watch CVE, frequent securityfocus.com, or let LWN [Updated vulnerabilities section] bring things together. LWN does a fabulous job, but I'm looking for something bigger and more personalized that doesn't require the system be on the internet. Freshmeat, SourceForge, and Google are all NULL on this question: is there a database, and scraping agents in existence that will let one person oversee dozens of OS installations, a mish-mash of software packages, and an even worse level of up-to-date patching exist so that when a new vulnerability against, say, OpenSSH comes out, I can look up which systems need to be tested and patched? My work should be limited to maintaining OS (not just Linux distros), software versions, and current patch lists. This is a classic database problem, but has someone already solved it?"

  28. How Do You Punch In?

    Ask · Business · · posted by Cliff · from the daily-work-rituals dept. · 105 comments
    grantedparole asks: "My company is planning to switch from an antiquated punch card time clock to a software based time clock, and a recent search on Google yielded many results. Searching on Freshmeat for 'timeclock' yielded two results, both of which do not appear to have any recent updates. Searching for 'time clock' returned more results, but all of those seem geared towards project management, rather than real world time keeping for many employees who don't work on projects (ie: sales people). What are the people on Slashdot using and is it running on *nix?"

  29. Open Source Database Clusters?

    Linux · Linuxbusiness · · posted by Cliff · from the prime-time-league-contenders-yet? dept. · 350 comments
    grugruto asks: "A lot of open source solutions are available to scale web sites with clusters but what about databases? I can't afford an Oracle RAC license but can I have something more reliable and fault tolerant than my single Postgres box? I have seen this recent article that looks promising for open source solutions. Do anyone have experiences with clusters of MySQL , Postgres-R, C-JDBC or other solutions? How does it compare to commercial products?"

  30. Seven Spam Filters Compared

    It · Spam · · posted by timothy · from the spam-is-evil dept. · 213 comments
    Goo.cc writes "Those wondering how their spam filtering software performs in comparison to other's may want to read this article on Freshmeat, where Sam Holden performs comparative testing of various popular e-mail filters. The filters tested includes Bayesian Mail Filter, Bogofilter, dbacl, Quick Spam Filter, SpamAssassin, SpamProbe, and SPASTIC."

  31. GUI Toolkits for the X Window System

    Developers · Programming · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the what-about-athena dept. · 353 comments
    TeachingMachines writes "Leslie Polzer has written a nice summary of the current state of GUI Toolkits for the X Windows System (article title of the same name). Those of you who are planning to spend hours and hours scouring the Internet for a mature cross-platform GUI toolkit may save some time and trouble by reading this summary. Leslie's review covers the pros and cons of using GTK+, Trolltech QT, FLTK, wxWindows, and the FOX Toolkit."

  32. Community Involvement for an Open Source Project?

    Ask · Programming · · posted by Cliff · from the getting-them-interested-and-keepin'-'em-that-way dept. · 148 comments
    pfleming asks: "Several months ago I began a maintenance fork of some niche software. Essentially, these are PHP/MySQL scripts for real estate offices. The original developer moved on to an incompatible version to what I was using. Upgrading for me and many other users was not the easiest option. Luckily the software is GPL'd and so continued work on the fork is not a big deal. I have set up a site, made it available for download, announced the availability of the fork on Freshmeat and the forums for the original software. Now I have a few people subscribed to the project on Freshmeat, and a few on a mailman list set up for the project. This project has been listed on the GNU Website and other mirror sites but doesn't get much discussion on the mailman list and nothing from the Freshmeat subscribers. There is usually an increase in interest (indicated by a short term increase in site hits) when new releases are announced but this fades back to regular traffic of ~40 visits per day as measured by webalizer after a short period of time. Is this an anomaly? Should I be thankful that there aren't tons of bug reports and feature requests?"

    "More questions for you to chew on:

    • Is there more interest in a new project vs. one that is more or less mature?
    • Is the project too narrow to attract an audience?
    • Could the underlying business (real estate) just be too saturated with web sites?
    Just what are the secrets to a successful (measured by lots of contributors, etc) project...or am I just not defining success correctly?

    What other thoughts does Slashdot have on this subject?"

  33. Mozilla Gets (Beta) Native SVG support

    Tech · Mozilla · · posted by timothy · from the so-check-it-out-and-complain-constructively dept. · 321 comments
    Rushuru writes "Mozilla is getting a beta native SVG support. Previously one had to use 3rd party plugins such as that from Adobe, and they only worked on windows. SVG is similar in scope to Flash, but it is a W3 recommendation (i.e. a standard) and uses an open format. The project page has more info."

  34. KnoppiXMAME 1.0 Released

    Games · Classicgames · · posted by michael · from the mame-in-a-box dept. · 212 comments
    Ant writes "KnoppixMAME is a bootable arcade machine emulator with hardware detection and autoconfiguration. It works automatically on all modern and not-so-modern hardware, including gameports and joysticks. It is powered by Knoppix Debian GNU/Linux, X-MAME, and gxmame." Update: 06/19 23:18 GMT by S : Although there are earlier versions in the release directory, looks like V1.0 hasn't made it onto the FTP just yet. Meanwhile, Jim points out the AdvanceCD image, which is "..also a bootable ISO image of a minimal Linux distribution containing MAME, but weighing in at 16 MB rather than 200 MB so there is more room for ROMs."

  35. The Tiger Security Tool Has Been Resurrected

    Developers · Gnu · · posted by timothy · from the aggie-tigers-changing-lightbulbs dept. · 7 comments
    javifs writes "Do you remember TAMU's security tools? If so you might remember a tool that was developed when COPS, SATAN, and ISS were (back in 1994): Tiger. You might think it was dead, well it's not. Tiger has resurrected at Savannah and even has a new webpage and logo! (cool, isn't it?) Tiger has some interesting features that merit its resurrection, including a modular design that is easy to expand, and its double edge: an audit tool and a host intrusion detection system tool. Free Software intrusion detection is currently going many ways, however, from network IDS (with Snort), to the kernel (LIDS, or SNARE for Linux and Systrace for OpenBSD, for example), not mentioning file integrity checkers (many of these: aide, integrit samhain, tripwire...) and logcheckers (even more of these, check Counterpane's Log Analysis pages). Also, free software Linux/*BSD distributions have a miriad of security tools to do local security checks: Mandrake's msec, OpenBSD's /etc/security, SUSE's Seccheck... maybe Tiger could substitute them at some point in the future. Do you think Tiger has a place in the toolkit of the security professional? (I might be biased, though, after all I'm the upstream developer for Tiger now :-) ) In any case, have you downloaded and tested the latest release candidate for Tiger version 3.2?"

  36. Crossover Office 2.0 Released

    Software · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the for-those-who-need-it dept. · 292 comments
    freakyfreak2 writes "Crossover Office 2.0.0 was just released. Finally can get Office XP apps to run. Here's from the announcement. "The changes in this release are as follows: Support was added for Photoshop 7, Access 2000, Word XP, Excel XP, and Powerpoint XP. glibc 2.3 issues were fixed. The setup GUI was dramatically improved. Tablet support for Photoshop was added. File locking and file change notification support were added. Scripts were added so that the technically inclined can have Windows applications open specific file types using Unix applications, for instance, opening PDF fies with the Unix Acrobat Reader. Many other cleanups and bug fixes were made. " Here's the homepage and here's the change log. I'm still waiting on getting Dreamweaver MX to run."

  37. Crossover Office 2.0 Released

    Software · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the for-those-who-need-it dept. · 292 comments
    freakyfreak2 writes "Crossover Office 2.0.0 was just released. Finally can get Office XP apps to run. Here's from the announcement. "The changes in this release are as follows: Support was added for Photoshop 7, Access 2000, Word XP, Excel XP, and Powerpoint XP. glibc 2.3 issues were fixed. The setup GUI was dramatically improved. Tablet support for Photoshop was added. File locking and file change notification support were added. Scripts were added so that the technically inclined can have Windows applications open specific file types using Unix applications, for instance, opening PDF fies with the Unix Acrobat Reader. Many other cleanups and bug fixes were made. " Here's the homepage and here's the change log. I'm still waiting on getting Dreamweaver MX to run."

  38. Too Much Free Software

    Software · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the uniting-behind dept. · 754 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none working perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major adoption of Linux on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand united. Read the article on Freshmeat."

  39. Too Much Free Software

    Software · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the uniting-behind dept. · 754 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none working perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major adoption of Linux on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand united. Read the article on Freshmeat."

  40. Large File Problems in Modern Unices

    Tech · Unix · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the stuff-to-deal-with dept. · 290 comments
    david-currie writes "Freshmeat is running an article that talks about the problems with the support for large files under some operating systems, and possible ways of dealing with these problems. It's an interesting look into some of the kinds of less obvious problems that distro-compilers have to face."

  41. Large File Problems in Modern Unices

    Tech · Unix · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the stuff-to-deal-with dept. · 290 comments
    david-currie writes "Freshmeat is running an article that talks about the problems with the support for large files under some operating systems, and possible ways of dealing with these problems. It's an interesting look into some of the kinds of less obvious problems that distro-compilers have to face."

  42. Freshmeat Launches Mac OS X Section

    Apple · Apple · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the i-like-my-OS-X dept. · 183 comments
    Liedra writes "After announcing Mac OS X software surreptitiously within its main section for the past several months, freshmeat has now launched a section totally devoted to the platform. Read the article by scoop and visit the section directly." Since I switched my primary laptop to OS X, I'm glad to see scoop do this. (Note, Freshmeat & Slashdot are both owned by OSDN.)

  43. Freshmeat Launches Mac OS X Section

    Apple · Apple · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the i-like-my-OS-X dept. · 183 comments
    Liedra writes "After announcing Mac OS X software surreptitiously within its main section for the past several months, freshmeat has now launched a section totally devoted to the platform. Read the article by scoop and visit the section directly." Since I switched my primary laptop to OS X, I'm glad to see scoop do this. (Note, Freshmeat & Slashdot are both owned by OSDN.)

  44. Freshmeat Launches Mac OS X Section

    Apple · Apple · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the i-like-my-OS-X dept. · 183 comments
    Liedra writes "After announcing Mac OS X software surreptitiously within its main section for the past several months, freshmeat has now launched a section totally devoted to the platform. Read the article by scoop and visit the section directly." Since I switched my primary laptop to OS X, I'm glad to see scoop do this. (Note, Freshmeat & Slashdot are both owned by OSDN.)

  45. Freshmeat Launches Mac OS X Section

    Apple · Apple · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the i-like-my-OS-X dept. · 183 comments
    Liedra writes "After announcing Mac OS X software surreptitiously within its main section for the past several months, freshmeat has now launched a section totally devoted to the platform. Read the article by scoop and visit the section directly." Since I switched my primary laptop to OS X, I'm glad to see scoop do this. (Note, Freshmeat & Slashdot are both owned by OSDN.)

  46. Dashboard Linux - 1 Year Later

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by michael · from the how-to-raise-your-insurance-rates dept. · 109 comments
    bergeron76 writes "It's been just over a year since the DashPC/Dashboard Linux project initially got jump started. Since then, the project has grown by an order of magnitude. The initial codebase has been released on freshmeat and sourceforge, and we're working with several other developers on integrating projects such as Linux GPS Navigation, wardrive mapping, and ODBII automobile interfacing. The potential is endless, considering just a couple of recent news headlines, and how we'd love to eventually bring them to both new and existing automobiles."

  47. OpenSSL or CDSA for Portable TLS?

    Ask · Security · · posted by Cliff · from the minimizing-work-at-the-source-level dept. · 11 comments
    bfrog asks: "I'm looking for a portable C/C++ client & server TLS library for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X. The license must be commercial-code-friendly. It seems like the choices are: the old standby OpenSSL; or CDSA . Apple makes a convincing argument for CDSA over OpenSSL in this PDF document , but I'm having trouble finding a mature CDSA implementation that's ready to go on all of these platforms. Perhaps I should use the best CDSA implementation for each given platform, and hope that the API's are compatible. That is, after all, the point of CDSA, right? Any suggestions?"

  48. OpenSSL or CDSA for Portable TLS?

    Ask · Security · · posted by Cliff · from the minimizing-work-at-the-source-level dept. · 11 comments
    bfrog asks: "I'm looking for a portable C/C++ client & server TLS library for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X. The license must be commercial-code-friendly. It seems like the choices are: the old standby OpenSSL; or CDSA . Apple makes a convincing argument for CDSA over OpenSSL in this PDF document , but I'm having trouble finding a mature CDSA implementation that's ready to go on all of these platforms. Perhaps I should use the best CDSA implementation for each given platform, and hope that the API's are compatible. That is, after all, the point of CDSA, right? Any suggestions?"

  49. Seeking Watchdog Hardware?

    Ask · Hardware · · posted by Cliff · from the sit-ubu-sit dept. · 15 comments
    hpavc asks: "I have played with watchdog daemons and hacks on and off for a while. I am wondering if there are any reccomendations out there for which real cards watchdog cards are of the best value. Or as some suggest is it all just a scam. From what I read the mechanisms of the cards differ greatly, both in their monitoring and their response. From simply watching an area of DMA to an embedded device with a os that monitors a large amount of things on the computer hardware and the environment. (tia)"

  50. Advanced Job Scheduling?

    Ask · Unix · · posted by Cliff · from the beyond-at-and-cron dept. · 24 comments
    Kagato asks: "I'm trying to make my company's Unix boxes more mission critical in the area of job scheduling. Scheduling jobs in Unix has been around since the dawn of time. On most systems you have 'cron' and 'at' to provide most of your scheduling needs. But outside the basic world of 'do this at such time' there are a slew of commercial products that handle dependencies, failure routes, monitoring, dependent notification, etc. Commercial products of this type have been around for years. Is there anything like this available in the GNU and Open Source worlds? I've been looking at Freshmeat, SourceForge and Google. I've found the pickings for advanced scheduling are pretty slim."